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Show Warning Given Not to Swing To 'Panaceas' President Would Make Benefits Available Sooner, Provide Greater Protection for Dependent Children and Widen Scope i i e WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 (AP) President Roosevelt recommended rec-ommended to congress today wide expansion of the social security act and warned at the same time against "turning to untried and demonstrably unsound panaceas." .The expansion program he called for Included begin-ning begin-ning old age Insurance benefits sooner and liberalizing them ' in the early years, affording greater protection, to depend-ent depend-ent children, extending unemployment and old age protection protec-tion as rapidly as possible to "all of our people" and lncreas-. ing in some Instances federal grants-in-aid to states. He also proposed that states receiving federal aid be re- , quired to institute merit systems for the personnel of agencies agen-cies handling social security funds. . . . "I cannot too strongly urge the wisdom of building upon ' ""' the principles contained in the present social security act in affording greater protection to our people," the president (Oonunwsd oa fate Two. Ooiuean One) |